Steering Committee

Dr Brian Baldwin

Senior Operations Management Adviser: including management of PBAS and allocations for countries in post-conflict and programmatic approached for fragile states. Manager of IFAD’s HIPC programme including management of debt in countries in crisis. Ex-country portfolio manager for Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Philippines all of which addressed in-country civil strife and fragility with country level stakeholders in public sector, private sector and civil society. Co-Chair Global Donor Platform for Rural Development and participant at Busan HLF December 2011.

Henk-Jan Brinkman

Henk-Jan Brinkman is chief of the Policy, Planning and Application Branch of the Peacebuilding Support Office in the United Nations Secretariat. Between 2006 and 2010, he was senior Adviser for Economic Policy in the World Food Programme, based in New York, and chief Economic Analysis and chief Food Security Policy and Markets in the Office of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme in Rome, Italy. From 2001 to 2006 he was a Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, where he advised Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on economic, social and environmental issues. Between 1989 and 2001, he was in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, where, inter alia, he contributed to the World Economic and Social Survey. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is the lead author of WFP’s World Hunger Series – Hunger and Markets, and author of Explaining Prices in the Global Economy: A Post-Keynesian Model. He holds Dutch citizenship.

Giancarlo Cirri

Giancarlo Cirri, a Swiss national, is the Acting Director of Policy, Planning and Strategy for the World Food Programme. Giancarlo joined WFP in 1995 and served in Yemen, Algeria, Cameroon, and Sao Tome and Principe (overseeing Gabon) before becoming a Country Director in Niger, Mauritania, and Yemen. Giancarlo joined the Policy Division as Head of School Feeding in 2011 before assuming responsibilities as the Deputy Director of Policy.

Hafez Ghanem

Hafez Ghanem – who holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis – is a development expert with extensive experience in policy analysis, project formulation and supervision and management of multinational institutions. He has worked in over 21 countries in Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa and South East Asia. He joined the Brookings Institution in 2012 as a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program to lead the Arab economies project. During the period 2007-12 he worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as the Assistant Director-General responsible for the Economic and Social Development Department. This Department is responsible for FAO’s analytical work on agricultural economics and food security, trade and markets, gender and equity, and statistics. Prior to joining FAO, he spent twenty-four years on the staff of the World Bank where he started as a research economist and then senior economist in West Africa and later South Asia. In 1995, he moved to Europe and Central Asia where he was Sector Leader for Public Economics and Trade Policy.

David Nabarro CBE FRCP

Born in London in 1949, David Nabarro trained as doctor, worked for six years in child health and nutrition programmes in Iraq, South Asia and East Africa, taught for six years at the London and Liverpool Schools of Tropical Medicine, and served as Director for Human Development in the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID). In 1999 he was selected to lead Roll Back Malaria at the World Health Organization (WHO): in 2003 moved to WHO’s Department for Health Action in Crises and in September 2005 he joined the office of the UN Secretary General as Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza. In January 2009 he was also asked to coordinate the UN system’s High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis and in October 2009, Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, appointed David Nabarro as his Special Representative for Food Security and Nutrition.

Kostas G. Stamoulis

Kostas G. Stamoulis is currently Director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division in FAO Headquarters and Secretary of the Committee on World Food Security. Before joining FAO in 1989, he was Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign. From 1985 to 1987 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. His work includes issues related to the role of agriculture in rural development and rural poverty reduction in developing countries; the impact of changes in food systems on smallholder farmers and on rural poverty; the linkages between the agricultural sector and the rural non-farm economy. Stamoulis has also carried out work on the assessment of the role of macroeconomic and exchange-rate policies on agriculture and the rural sector and the interdependence between exchange rate, financial and commodity markets. Stamoulis holds a degree in Economics from the Economics University of Athens (Greece), a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia (USA) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval

Since mid-2005, Alexandra Trzeciak-Duval has served as Head of the Policy Division in OECD’s Directorate for Development Co-operation and provided leadership for work in conflict and fragility, governance, capacity development, environment, gender equality and policy coherence, with the more recent addition of work on aid for trade and food security. Previously, Ms. Trzeciak-Duval served in the Office of the OECD Secretary-General as Special Advisor and Co-ordinator of Policy Coherence for Development and, before that, headed OECD’s Division for Agricultural Policies in Non-Member Economies. Between 1991 and 1997, she was Head of the OECD’s Russia and Newly Independent States Unit and was responsible for the programme with economies in transition. Before joining the OECD in 1991, Ms. Trzeciak-Duval completed a 20-year career at the World Bank working on development policy issues.

Razan Zuayter

Razan Zuayter holds a BSc and Masters in Agriculture from the American University of Beirut. She is the founder & president of the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN), an organization that focuses on the protection of natural resources in the context of conflict. Razan is the initiator and co-founder of the Arab Network for Food Sovereignty (ANFS). She is a member of the Civil Society Mechanism / CFS at FAO and the WA focal point at the IPC, under which she founded in 2003 the Working Group on Conflict in the Context of Food Security. She is currently coordinating the CSM/CFS WG on Protracted Crises and has written several articles and given many presentations on the topic.